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Polyclonal Mycobacterium avium complex infections in patients with nodular bronchiectasis.
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine - 1 Oct 1998
Wallace R J, Zhang Y, Brown B A, Dawson D, Murphy D T, Wilson R, Griffith D E
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) isolates among patients with chronic lung disease were studied for their heterogeneity using genetic identification methods, pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and seroagglutination. A mean of 7.3 cultures per patient were collected from 17 patients with nodular bronchiectasis who were elderly (mean age 66 yr), predominantly female (76%), had smoked a mean of only 5...
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